The 2025 Esports World Cup has released details about its first-ever Chess tournament. Let's explore the event's key information, including its schedule, format, prize pool and more. Chess will ...

Billed as “Magnus Carlsen vs. The World”, the online match began on April 4 on Chess.com, the world’s largest chess website, and was the first-ever online freestyle game to feature a world ...

Billed as "Magnus Carlsen vs. The World," the online match began April 4 on Chess.com, the world's largest chess website, and was the first-ever online freestyle game to feature a world champion.

Magnus Carlsen may be the best chess player in the world, but the Norwegian has ruled out a return to the classical World Chess Championship. Carlsen, a five-time world champion, last won the ...

Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died at the age of 88(Heinz Ducklau/ AP file photo) Spassky, who took French nationality in 1978, was the 10th World Chess Champion, holding the title ...

Boris Spassky, legendary Russian chess player and the 10th World Chess Champion who rose to international fame in the 1972 “Match of the Century” against American Bobby Fischer, died Thursday ...

Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen dropped out of the World Rapid and Blitz Championships on Dec. 27 after refusing to ditch his denim as "a matter of principle" Misha Friedman/Getty World ...

The World Chess Championship, a competition conducted by FIDE to determine the world chess champion, so far has 22 players in the history of the sport to hold the official title. Indian ...

The World Chess Championship (WCC) is the most prestigious tournament in chess, where the best players compete for the title of World Chess Champion. It was first held in 1886, marking the ...

AFP Dubai: The chess world is stirred following a controversial claim about the FIDE World Chess Championship final, where India's D Gukesh defeated China's Ding Liren to become the youngest world ...

David Smerdon is a chess grandmaster who has represented Australia at eight Chess Olympiads. Eighteen-year-old Indian prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju has become the new world chess champion, winning the ...